7 Times Hollywood Whitewashed (And Straightwashed) Comic Book Characters
2. Fox: Whitewashed
Fox
Granted, 2008's Wanted wasn't all that great to begin with, but still, a whitewash is a whitewash, and the film featured one in a key role.
In the original Mark Millar and J. G. Jones comic, Fox - portrayed by Angelina Jolie on film - was modelled on Halle Berry. And while Jolie certainly worked the part well, that doesn't detract from the fact that the character was party to a particularly toxic Hollywood trend - one creator Mark Millar didn't seem to mind at all, seeing as how he had an influence in the casting process itself.
Halle Berry will, however, be making an appearance (for real) in the upcoming Kingsman: The Secret Circle - another Millar project - and will mark the star's first return to comic book-dom since 2014's X-Men: Days of Future Past.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
